Staff Forums

[AgnesIO]

This came up in another thread soo..

Personally I think staff forums should be cut down on, or some of the threads should be stopped.

For example, I know the staff has a 'Staff Discuss Anything' forum - I cannot see how this helps the forum at all, when many of the posts can be posted on the PUBLIC forums, which in turn ups activity.

Further more, some of the 'staff spam threads' are huge - with one of them (the RV one) having like 40,000 posts (that was over a year ago..). I know many of these are rare value reports (the original posts in the thread), but I know the majority of the posts there are all from the staff posting. Although this could be argued to be good for staff bonding, personally i do not feel it helps the forum activity at all.

Next, many staff still do not post in the public forums enough. If even staff are not getting engaged in the community (and it doesn't matter if you are a community staff member ot not, you should still be getting involved on the forum), why on earth would normal members? I know staff will moan about this, but are a lot of the staff forums/spam threads needed? All they seem to do is put the forum activity down - I know this from personal experience, and when you have the staff forums there you do end up posting far more in those, than on the actual forum. Personally I think it would be better to 'encourage' (tell staff they have to post) staff to post more in the public forums. As in my opinion, the first people to go to to help increase forum activity is your staff.

Opinions?

[Tintinnabulate]

one of them is dead. the official one

[rnix]

I don't think this is a concern for non staff members :L edit: i understand your points now
But personally i post majority in the normal forums and not in the staff spam threads.
There are a few which don't post in the main forums but this is their own decision.

[AgnesIO]

I don't think this is a concern for non staff members :L
But personally i post majority in the normal forums and not in the staff spam threads.
There are a few which don't post in the main forums but this is their own decision.

Don't be so bloody ignorant. Apparently you have no concern about the activity on the forum, and since you have been on the forum since 2006, I would have thought you would have seen the massive decline in posting.

It isn't about being staff or not - you don't have to be staff to want the forum activity to rise :S

one of them is dead. the official one

Well then, the forum needs speeding up. Apparently it isn't needed?

[xxMATTGxx]

I'm 50/50 in regards of the staff spam threads really, I know some departments have an ideal and small sized spam thread that is quite suitable for them for bonding/whatever reasons. Then other departments have these big massive spam threads that have like xx,xxx amount of replies that I don't feel do anything good for the department in terms of bonding and so on, I think it might be due to what actually gets posted in them compared to others really.

"Staff Discuss Anything" doesn't do much at all because anything Habbox related has to be posted in the other forum either way. Most of what gets posted in there is topics from Ex-General Management and current staff discussing and posting random stuff.

[Inseriousity.]

There have been many 'please post more around the forum' threads. Personally, I don't think removing spam threads will increase staff posting in the main forum. It'll just make a lot more spam threads in the department staff forum. Staff are members too and post in the main forum when they want to/find an interesting thread to post in. If it's never, maybe it's not a case of looking at the problems in the staff forums but looking at the problems within the main forum instead.

[rnix]

Don't be so bloody ignorant. Apparently you have no concern about the activity on the forum, and since you have been on the forum since 2006, I would have thought you would have seen the massive decline in posting.

It isn't about being staff or not - you don't have to be staff to want the forum activity to rise :S?

I wasn't being ignorant, i do have concern for the posting but myself i post more in general then the staff forums as there is much more discussion there.
And another reason some staff don't post in general is maybe because they don't like posting in non-staff forums (maybe not at all) like when i returned to the forum i didn't like posting in many threads (esp spam) because i didn't know anyone.

But this is just my opinion.

[AgnesIO]

I'm 50/50 in regards of the staff spam threads really, I know some departments have an ideal and small sized spam thread that is quite suitable for them for bonding/whatever reasons. Then other departments have these big massive spam threads that have like xx,xxx amount of replies that I don't feel do anything good for the department in terms of bonding and so on, I think it might be due to what actually gets posted in them compared to others really.

"Staff Discuss Anything" doesn't do much at all because anything Habbox related has to be posted in the other forum either way. Most of what gets posted in there is topics from Ex-General Management and current staff discussing and posting random stuff.

Surely the random stuff could go in the normal spam section then? I don't see why an extra forum is needed - I remember when I was staff just as an RV reporter (an example) there were like 4/5 forums I could see if I remember rightly - only two of them meant anything at all - that being the habbox bit (discussion about hx only), and obviously the rv bit to report values. I didn't need the spam thread - I only used it because it was there - not because I preferred it to the normal forums.

[Chippiewill]

Is it possible to set a post limit per day on specific forums, say 15-25 posts per day on the staff discuss anything forum.

[AgnesIO]

I wasn't being ignorant, i do have concern for the posting but myself i post more in general then the staff forums as there is much more discussion there.
And another reason some staff don't post in general is maybe because they don't like posting in non-staff forums (maybe not at all) like when i returned to the forum i didn't like posting in many threads (esp spam) because i didn't know anyone.

But this is just my opinion.

IMO though if you are staff you should interact with other users, not block them out.